A communist mayor was elected from the 1st round on the island of Ikaria, while the communist mayor in the country’s 3rd largest city, Patras, won over 41% in the first and 56% in the second round, and was therefore reelected.
Monday, October 16, 2023
Six communists were elected mayors in Greece's local elections — Significant reinforcement of the KKE
A communist mayor was elected from the 1st round on the island of Ikaria, while the communist mayor in the country’s 3rd largest city, Patras, won over 41% in the first and 56% in the second round, and was therefore reelected.
Thursday, October 12, 2023
KKE: No involvement of Greece in the NATO-USA-Israel massacre in Gaza
"The dispatch of the Greek frigate "Psara" —with a crew and security team of more than 200 people in total— to the South-Eastern Mediterranean, to join a NATO force operating in the region, is a very dangerous development, at a time when the conflict in the Middle East is a breath away from further escalation and a generalized military engagement.
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Greece local elections: Significant reinforcement of the KKE in all regions and large municipalities
Thursday, October 5, 2023
Koutsoumbas: Join forces with the KKE in all struggles and in local elections!
At the rally in the city of Larissa on Tuesday 3 October, he stated the following:
Thursday, September 28, 2023
SYRIZA hits rock bottom of political degeneration
Stefanos Kasselakis, SYRIZA's new leader |
Sunday, September 24, 2023
Communist Youth Festival in Athens concluded with an awe-inspiring political event
In a fully-packed Tritsis Park, thousands communists, workers, people of every age, men and women, attended the event, where the keynote speaker was Dimitris Koutsoumbas, General Secretary of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE).
Monday, September 18, 2023
KKE: Strike call against Mitsotakis government's new anti-labour steamroller
The protest, organized by trade unions and mass organizations, turned into a call for a strike against the government’s anti-labour steamroller and into a condemnation of the recent crime against the people of Thessaly.
Thursday, September 7, 2023
Flooding in Greece — KKE: Unprotected cities and defenseless people against a rotten and hostile state
“Unprotected cities and defenseless people against a rotten and hostile state, which is unwilling and unable to take even basic measures of protection against natural phenomena.
Thursday, August 31, 2023
Nikos Sofianos, the KKE's candidate for Athens mayor
"People's Rally" campaign poster. |
An experienced KKE cadre, with a long political and social activity, Sofianos has been a member of the Athens Municipal Council since 2010 under the banner of the KKE-supported "Athens People's Rally".
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
KKE on Mitsotakis-Zelensky joint declaration: Their invocation of international law is hypocritical
“As much as Mr Mitsotakis hypocritically invokes the “international law”, he can't hide that actual aim of his government, which is the more active and deep involvement of our country in the imperialist war in Ukraine and in NATO plans in the region. Essentially, that is, the ND government feeds those factors that led both to the NATO-Russia conflict in Ukraine, as well as to the aggravation of the problems in the Balkan countries.
Sunday, August 20, 2023
KKE and AKEL condemn attack on UN peacekeeping forces in Cyprus' buffer zone
The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) in an announcement on Saturday underlined that the occupation authorities in north Cyprus arbitrary decision to carry out unauthorised construction works for the opening of a road that would link the occupied village Arsos with Pyla (inhabited by Turkish-Cypriots and Greek-Cypriots) along with the attack against UN peacekeeping forces aims to the creation of fait accompli and triggers a dangerous tension in the area.
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
KKE: Statement on the murder of 29-year-old man by Croatian fascist hooligans in Athens
The spot where the AEK fan was murdered. |
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
KKE: Article by Dimitris Koutsoumbas on the post-election developments and the tasks of the Party
A few weeks ago, we came out of an arduous, long and relatively intense electoral period with two successive electoral battles that reflected the current negative political correlation of forces.
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
50 years since the death of legendary Greek communist leader Nikos Zachariadis
Friday, July 21, 2023
Communist and Workers' Parties denounce detention and expulsion of Soha Bechara by Greek authorities
Thanasis Pafilis, member of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and parliamentary spokesperson, protested to the Ministry of Citizen Protection against the detention of Bechara.
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Greece wildfires — KKE: The country is once again left unprotected against fire fronts
Volunteer groups of the KKE and KNE are fighting the dozens of disastrous wildfires that have broken out around the country together with firefighters and local residents. KKE MPs are also present in the fire-stricken areas.
Monday, July 17, 2023
Thousands of young communists participated in the 32nd Anti-imperialist Camp of KNE
Thursday, July 6, 2023
Solidarity with Kononovich Brothers! Protest of the KKE and KNE at the Ukrainian Embassy in Athens
The KKE’s statement of protest reads as follows:
Tuesday, July 4, 2023
Communist Party of Vietnam and KKE reaffirm long-standing fraternal relations
Phan Dinh Trac, accompanied by the Ambassador of Vietnam in Greece, Le Hong Truong, was welcomed by the General Secretary of the CC of the KKE Dimitris Koutsoumbas and Giorgos Marinos, member of the KKE's Political Bureau.
Monday, July 3, 2023
Requiem For a “Leftist” Servant of the Capital
Following SYRIZA's double resounding electoral defeat in the parliamentary elections of 21 May and 25 June, Alexis Tsipras announced that he steps down from the party leadership after 15 years.
This is almost certainly not the end of 49-year-old Tsipras' political career — his talent in demagogy will be proved useful for the bourgeois class in the future — but provides us a chance to review and evaluate some major aspects of his so far contribution to Greek politics.